''Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.''''Jean Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on methat there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.''''Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened,I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.""I agree with what Jean Eustache says, television is great for a second viewing, butnot for discovering a film. It's a bit like seeing a film again on the editing table.""The consumers of mainstream cinema who reject Marguerite Duras, Robert Bresson,Jean-Marie Straub or Werner Schroeter, are also people who refuse cinema. "Jacques Rivette

Celine and Julie Go Boating, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1974
Jacques Rivette, 1928-2016 French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New
Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'amour fou (1969), Out 1
(1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
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